Artist - Michael Forbes

Michael Forbes, born 1968 in Dingwall, Scotland. Designed poster for London Transport 2000

Biography:

Michael Forbes had no formal art training, but has been selling paintings since he was seventeen. He secured his first exhibition after winning a competition on a Mars Bar and took up painting full time in 1989.
His paintings depict dreamlike scenes from a bizarre, poetic world. Filmmaker and animator Terry Gilliam, who is a client of Forbes, describes his paintings as ‘Surreal, mischievous, wryly sweet... and chockablock with wit and wonder’.
Forbes lives and works in Scotland. He has had a number of one-man shows in London and Edinburgh.